http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
I’m not sure why you say it couldn’t do this. Are you saying this demonstration was false?
I would say it is false. Every time I see Elon Musk, I think of a carnival barker.
There’s no way that car was the equivalent of a Joe Average battery swap. No doubt it was clean and easy to get to the bolts. The bolts were probably already loosened. Everything was set up to make it as easy as possible.
Want a real test, get a Tesla with 20K on it and lets see how fast it swaps it. Oh, you can’t, there aren’t any Tesla Super Charging Stations, oh, I mean Tesla service station.
How much money is Tesla making by selling their mileage credits to other companies?
Do they swap that quick when the battery is bricked?
That video is the ONLY occasion the feature has been “demonstrated”. I use quotes because even then nobody was allowed near the cars, either before or after the swap.
Tesla has never shown it in a consumer car. Among people in the Tesla forum, absolutely nobody has claimed that his battery change took minutes - it’s always hours.
Then there is, you know, circumstantial evidence..... Such as the total lack of news about swap stations ONE YEAR after they started to get money off this feature.
Just try to find a Tesla statement about swaps that isn’t six months old.